Meatless Makeovers is Drop Squad Kitchen’s Book of Replacements. A great number of us grew up eating meals closely resembling meals in this book. We started with that: FAMILIARITY! You can purchase every ingredient in your average grocery stores and supermarkets.

People are afraid of what they do not understand. Meatless Makeovers demonstrates its familiarity via foods we traditionally grew up eating. We wanted to stay well within the comfort plateau of traditional meals and food. We don’t want difference and fear being factors to eating unapologetically healthy.

I felt it a must to keep traditional perceptions of soul food alive while permeating traditional memories suitable for the preparer and eater. The recipes in this book are very familiar to us all. Most of these meals are iconic trophies for family reunions and family gatherings. We all agree there is nothing like a good home cooked meal made with soul by elder matriarchs in our families.